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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] target.c: Check current_target in target_resize_to_sections
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412F4F68.5000104@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mtu7jrkocgn.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>

> Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>>> > 2004-08-25  Nathan J. Williams  <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
>>>> > 	* target.c (target_resize_to_sections): Check
>>>> > 	current_target.to_sections for an old value when updating.
>>
>>> 
>>> Can you just add some sort of brief comment noting why current_target
>>> also needs to be checked.  With that it's ok (but post the revised
>>> patch when committing).
> 
> 
> Sure. Should I add the comment to the ChangeLog, the code, or both?
> (The code already says what it's trying to do by updating all this
> stuff, and while it's not obvious when something like current_target
> is missing, it's pretty obvious when it's there).

The code.  The ChangeLog contains what was changed, the code why.
It's not so obvious, as otherwize you'd have not found yourself fixing 
the bug :-)  Just some sort of gentle reminder that current_target 
contains a flattened copy of the target stack and hence also needs to be 
updated.

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-27 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-25 20:40 Nathan J. Williams
2004-08-26 21:25 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-08-27 14:57   ` Nathan J. Williams
2004-08-27 15:13     ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-08-27 18:12       ` Nathan J. Williams

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